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A second season for High Score Girl TV anime was announced during Extra Stage OVA screening event on Thursday. Titled High Score Girl II, the anime is slated for this fall. The staff and cast members will reprise their roles. Rensuke Oshikiri penned High Score Girl in Big Gangan from October 2010 to September 2018; compiling into ten volumes. The manga entered hiatus when it received a copyright violation for featuring characters from games without proper permission, which also delayed its anim...

An official website launched and announced a new original anime movie by Tatsuyuki Nagai. Titled Sora no Aosa wo Shiru Hito yo (The Person Who Knows How Blue the Sky Is), the movie will premiere in Japanese theaters on October 11. The Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae wo Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai. production team will team up again to produce the anime movie. The catchphrase on the key visual reads, "This is a second first love story that is sad and mysterious." Staff Original: Chou Heiwa Busters Direc...

An official website launched and announced an original TV anime series. Titled Keishichou Tokumubu Tokushu Kyouakuhan Taisakushitsu Dainanaka: Tokunana (Special Crime Investigation Unit - Special 7), the anime is slated for this fall. Main staff and cast members have been revealed. Synopsis To Keep Searching for What You Admire Straightforwardly. A long time ago dragons ruled a world of elves, dwarves, vampires, homunculi, and humans. In the present dragons have all but disappeared, so the ones...

The official website for the Cencoroll movie has revamped and announced a new movie. Titled Cencoroll: Connect, it connects the first movie and second movie and will premiere in Japanese theaters on June 29. The anime will have a stage at AnimeJapan 2019 on March 24. Atsuya Uki (director), Kana Hanazawa (Yuki), and Ryouhei Kimura (Shuu) will appear for a talk show with Ryouta Fujitsu as the host. Cencoroll is an anime movie that premiered ten years ago in June 2009. A sequel was announced and o...

The official website for the Spring 2018 anime Jimoto ga Japan (I'm from Japan) has announced additional cast members. The series will begin to air on April 8 during the CharaSuta time slot that is part of TV Tokyo's morning show OhaSuta. Cast Tokio Abiko: Koutarou Nishiyama (Gakuen Babysitters) Hide: Wataru Hatano (Nobunaga no Shinobi) Masurao Kikuchi: Tessyo Genda (Gintama) Komachi Yuze: Reina Ueda (Net-juu no Susume) Jimoto ga Japan adapts the comedy manga by Seiji Hayashi. Isamu Ueno (Zannen...

The 16th issue of Akita Shoten's Shounen Champion of 2019 announced on Wednesday that a second season of Keisuke Itagaki's Baki: New Grappler Baki manga is in production. Netflix will once again stream the new season exclusively. Based on Itagaki's manga, Baki: New Grappler Baki was serialized in Shounen Champion between 1999 and 2005. The series is a sequel to his original Grappler Baki manga that ran between 1991 to 1999 in Shounen Champion. Itagki penned two more sequels, Hanma Baki and Baki...

The 2019 award list for the 12th edition of Manga Taisho, an annual Japanese manga award, has been announced. The award is decided by a panel of bookstore clerks who select the best title from manga series which have fewer than 8 volumes and have released at least one volume in the last year. The first voting round decides the nominees, and the second decides the final ranking. *1. 94 pts Kanata no Astra [action, sci-fi, shounen, space] by Kenta Shinohara *2. 78 pts Mystery to Iu nakare [myster...

This year's April issue of Shueisha's Ultra Jump announced on Tuesday that Tasuku Karasuma's No Guns Life manga is being adapted into a TV anime. The anime series will be produced by animation studio Madhouse. Synopsis Ex-soldier Juuzou Inui has one question—who turned him into a cyborg and erased his memories? After the war, cyborg soldiers known as the Extended were discharged. Juzo Inui is one of them, a man whose body was transformed, his head replaced with a giant gun! With no memory of his...

The April 2019 issue of Shogakukan's Sunday Gene-X magazine announced a third anime season for Wataru Watari and Ponkan 8's Yahari Ore no Seishun Love Comedy wa Machigatteiru. light novel series on Tuesday. Wataru Watari began penning the romantic comedy series, also known by its short name Oregairu, in 2011 with illustrations by Ponkan 8. The novel began its final chapter with the 12th volume in September 2017. Publishing label Gagaga Bunko plans to ship the 14th and final volume on April 18....

The 16th issue of this year's Weekly Shounen Jump revealed main staff and the second key visual (pictured) for the Dr. Stone anime series on Monday. The anime adaptation of Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi's post-apocalyptic manga produced by TMS Entertainment will air in July 2019. Staff Director: Shinya Iino (Made in Abyss assistant director) Series Composition: Yuuichirou Kido (Nanatsu no Taizai: Seisen no Shirushi script) Character Design: Yuuko Iwasa (D.Gray-man animation director) Music: Tatsuy...

Here is a collection of promotional videos (PVs), TV ads (CMs), and trailers for the last week. This thread excludes videos that have already been featured in an article. Please check the News Board, under the Preview tag, for articles that feature a promotional video. Last week's PV thread can be found here. Enen no Shouboutai | TV | PV The promotional video for Enen no Shouboutai reveals that the series is scheduled to broadcast during the new Super Anime-ism programming block on July 6 via MB...

Two new cast members for the previously announced Jashin-chan Dropkick 2nd Season have been announced via a Nico Live broadcast on Sunday. Cast Kyon Kyon: Nanami Yamashita (Darling in the FranXX) Kyon Kyon's older sister: Minami Tanaka (Kakegurui series) AnimeJapan 2019 stage for the anime will be held on March 23 and 24. Nichika Oomori (Yurine Hanazono), Yurie Kozakai (Pekora), Rico Sasaki (Poporon), Marina Yamada (Pino), and Koichirou Natsume (Production Leader) will appear for a talk show wi...

The April 2019 issue of Square Enix's GFantasy magazine announced a TV anime adaptation of Iro Aida's Jibaku Shounen Hanako-kun (Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun) manga on Monday. Synopsis "Hanako-san, Hanako-san...are you there?" At Kamome Academy, rumors abound about the school's Seven Mysteries, one of which is Hanako-san. Said to occupy the third stall of the third floor girls' bathroom in the old school building, Hanako-san grants any wish when summoned. Nene Yashiro, an occult-loving high school gi...

The official website for Tensei shitara Slime Datta Ken TV anime announced a sequel on Sunday. It is slated for next year. Fuse has been writing the story on the Shousetsuka ni Narou website between 2013 and 2015. Micro magazine has been releasing the light novel series with illustrations by Mitz Vah since 2014, and thirteen volumes have been released as of September 2018. The TV anime is based on the manga series, which is based on the light novel series. Ten compiled volumes have been release...

In this thread, you'll find a comprehensive list of Spring 2019 titles with an accompanying promotional video (PV), commercial (CM), or trailer. This post will be updated to include a video for titles that are missing one, leading up to the start of the season. Titles that already have a video embedded will instead have their newly released videos added to the video tab of their respective entries. For convenience, the video tab can be accessed via the additional videos link next to the embedded...